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I see the roads minister responded with a letter to the editor today :
A narrow view of Victoria Road project
Your editorial ("Vision narrows on Victoria Road", April 22) ignores the public transport benefits this significant infrastructure project will provide.
The project, which includes 3.5 kilometres of new bus lanes, is designed to improve bus travel times for the 200,000 bus commuters who use Victoria Road services each week. Disentangling buses from general traffic will provide significant savings of up to eight minutes for commuters on this busy corridor.
The goals were made clear when the project was announced in 2006 as a bus priority measure under the State Government's $660 million Urban Transport Statement. The Iemma Government took this project to the last election and is delivering on this commitment to improve public transport infrastructure on Victoria Road by 2010.
Doing nothing is not an option, that's why the Roads and Traffic Authority spent three months consulting the community and commuters and is now refining the project using their feedback.
Getting buses, with their stop-start movements, out of the general traffic lanes is the first step to improving traffic flows on this road.
Eric Roozendaal Minister for Roads, Sydney
Notice how he finishes up, though. Making cars go faster is still the main meal in his mind. Buses going faster's just the side dish.
Cars come first, everything else second.
My cynical take on this is that in the US you start a war to funnel the funds to the people who pay you...
In Oz you build a yellow brick road!